Kathleen Sebelius will not be a part of Barack Obama’s cabinet. She has taken her name out of contention and intends to fill out the rest of her term as governor of Kansas. I admit that I’m happy to hear it, not because I don’t think Sebelius deserves to be in the cabinet, but because she is the only Democrat capable of winning Sam Brownback’s senate seat in 2010.
Ross Douthat thinks the anti-choice movement is popular and doesn’t hurt Republicans’ image. He should visit the Philly suburbs and test his hypothesis.
George Will is my Wanker of the Day. How do you waste a syndicated column arguing against a piece of legislation that no one is going to offer?
Freezer Cash Jefferson lost his reelection bid. His opponent will be the first Vietnamese-American to serve in Congress. He will serve for exactly two years. The Democrats also appear to have lost their effort to take over the 4th District’s seat, although the count is close and Carmouche has not conceded.
Here’s hoping the Giants smash the Eagles.
Paging Arthur Gilroy
Here hoping the Eagle humiliate the giants! Burress the gun toting juvenile can’t hurt us today. We are going to key on Jacobs and shutdown the giants. Bet on it! 😉
Dom Hixon runs the Burress routes even better than Burress. It’s only at the goal-line where we’ll miss Plax (because of his height). But if you single-cover Hixon, he’ll burn you all day long.
It will be an upset if we win this one. The eagles can’t afford to lose and the giants have two games up on the whole NFC. Only big letdown on your part will give the Eagles a win.
The Eagles can win if they can score touchdowns. The Giants defense has been stout for the most part but the Cardinals and Browns cracked the code. It’s going to be cold and kicking could be a problem. I expect a low-scoring physical game. Special Teams could be decisive (DeSean Jackson???). And Westbrook needs a giant game if the Eagles are going to win.
Desean Jackson has been a wonderful rookie. Yes he and westbrook are the keys. We are having a lot of problems running the ball Westbrook is fully healthy now so we will see. But its our beatup offensive line thats more the problem.
the giants are making enough mistakes to keep this game close. Hixon dropped an 85-yard TD pass.
Yup that was big the cold may be getting to him. L.J. Smith with two catches in a row? something weird is going on he drops every other ball in a normal game.
yeah, I’d say that kicking is a problem in this game. Three blocked kicks so far.
Courtesy of Heathlander. Jewish settlers are out of control and fully supported by the IDF. Religious zealots stealing land and attacking innocent Patestinians. Have a nice day.
since it is headed-O&E, I will simply ask– Does anyone think that it isn’t necessary to at least “mention” the event that occured on this day awhile ago?
On 12/7/41 we became involved in a conflagration that claimed 60 million lives across the world. The Japanese attacked our military base in Pearl harbor Hawaii. We with the use of abundant oil and natural resources crushed the Japanese and German empires.
No Japanese or German soldiers occupy our soil. In an offering to Jewish zionists we gave them half of Palestine to make up for the genocide inflicted upon them by European Germans. They have stolen, continue to steal and occupy approximately 80% of Palestine. The war we entered in 1941 still rages in occupied Palestine. The suffering goes on.
even though I am not, I repeat NOT going to discuss the absurdity of the gist of you post, at least you were willing to acknowledge the fact that on Dec 7, 1941, the US was attacked by Japan.
AND THAT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IS MORE THAT THE US MEDIA APPEARS WILLING TO DO.
We did not beat the German Empire. The Soviet Union accomplished this mighty feat. Course they lost something like eight million soldiers killed and suffered nineteen million civilian deaths.
At the battle of Kursk (August 1943) the Soviets threw in 5,000 tanks against 2,500 German ones and 1.4 million soldiers against 800,000 members of the Wehrmacht. Fighting was ferocious. Like at Stalingrad where the fighting was just as fierce, if not more so from August 1942 to January 1943.
The number of battle deaths for the American forces was under a half million. The Russians lost this many, counting civilians, at the siege of Leningrad alone. No wonder Stalin & company were so jumpy after the war and even today, I don’t think these terrible military and civilian deaths have been completely forgotten. Perhaps, this is why Russia, currently, is so upset with the eastward expansion of the NATO Alliance.
Putin like Gorbachev, claims that Reagan gave his word late in his administration that NATO would never expand east of the Oder River – the eastern border of Germany. That is why both Russians feel betrayed by the west. If NATO tries to include Ukraine and Georgia as members, I think it will be World War III. No Russian administration will tolerate another invasion by German forces, nor have the NATO Alliance on its immediate borders.
an appropriate question, but, if l may play the gadfly; how much flag waving, ultra-nationailism, rah rah are we supposed to do? shall we continue to glorify the spanish-american war: “remember the maine“, or vietnam: “gulf of tonkin incident“, 9/11, and l’m sure many others, as high points in our imperialistic endeavors? all curiously aided and abetted by spurious casus bellis
l think the past eight years have proven, beyond any doubt, that, as sinclair lewis opined: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
it’s little wonder that celebrations of these things have become somewhat subdued.
sorry bill, no flag waving at mi casa.
Please don’t take my comment as a flag waving moment but simply an attempt to point out that SOMETHING HAPPENED on dec 7 1941 besides christmas shopping!
I use it as another opportunity to think about the A Bomb and the only nation that’s had the gall to drop it. Twice. In cities.
Retaliation gets us nowhere, yet human beings do their damnedest to prove Pavlov wrong
Only money talks fairness is Orwellian. This shows how out of touch George will has become in his golden years. Will not the sponsors push their own politics without a fairness doctrine? Have we not watched drug addicts like Rush Limbaugh destroy weak minds? Maybe we can use some fairness. George Will has turned into an assclown. He used to have some intellect.
What Dec. 7, means to me. Well first of all 12-7-41 is the day after my sister was born. In my family we always said they found out she was born and attacked us. Macabre humour I know.
So I was born 17 months later and my early life was lived in the shadow of that moment. When I think of this day I think about the people I knew then, parents, grandparents, all assortment of relatives and friends and my own father leaving me a newborn to go off to the army and I was not to see him again till I was 3 or 4. Didn’t know who he was, this man, but I was awfully excited to meet him. I do believe now in retrospect that my whole life was framed in some way by the lack of a father in the early years. When he came home, it was as a divorced father and I rarely saw him for the next 6 or so years till I went to live with the virtual stranger and his wife.
I think too that as a result of that war, my mother and her mother were able to go out and start their own dress store and have their own business. Something that was not often available or desirable before the 40’s.
I also think about the rationing, the shortages, how people made do, the victory gardens, the mournful music and the uplifting movies like White Christmas. That movie was made in the year of my birth, 43. the sharing within the community and the noticable absence of so many of our family and town off fighting. Being of German descent, we even had our spy, who had to go and live in Germany and report back to the us. Of course we didn’t get the whole story until long after the war was over.
Oh and in reference to Manee’s comment above, I do remember the bombs, remember seeing for the first time in the paper that horrible and terrible mushroom cloud and wondering then how that could be a good thing.
Anyway, hugs and warm greetings to all.